Hanta Yo

Synopsis

This is the saga of bands of Lakotah/Dakotah Indians from 1794 through 1835, told via the lives of individuals. The story seems woven from the events recorded on an actual Winter Count (a history of important events to mark the years) found in 1865. Though long (812 pages), the novel is absorbing and the characters very well drawn. .I found it hard to stop reading. The book won a Western Heritage Award in 1980. Warning:a few graphic scenes of torture and delicately phrased descriptions of sex. "...Indian idiom [is followed] as closely as possible in mood, tense and definition . . ." Thus sentences that might seem to be grammatically incorrect, or missing words, are not errors, nor are some adjective-noun hyphenated words. This book has been read and validated carefully. I did nothing with the Glossary or Idiomatic Phrases except put in page breaks. I did look at them and I think they are readable and comprehensible as they are, but if you need them cleaned up, send those pages to me and I'll get the book and fix them (popularplace@yahoo.com or socly@lycos.com) The occasional bullets have no significance (I couldn't get rid of them). Nor could I put all the diacritical marks that should be in the names: S and z should have an acute above them, and the "h" and "g" a dot above them, sometimes c a dot below. Other letters have acutes. There are innumerable Indian words and non-traditional spellings of familiar words.

Copyright:

1979

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

835 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780385135542

Publisher:

N/A

Date of Addition:

09/07/04

Copyrighted By:

Ruth Beebe Hill

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Gerald Mackowiak

Proofread By:

Grandma Cindy

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.